E-News 1077

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This week I got the information that Adelbert Von Deyen, whosealbums Sternzeit and Nordborg where a great inspiration for me in the begin times of my musical exploration, died on February 13, 2018.Every fan of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream should check out at least Sternzeit which is considered by many his masterpiece! Sad to see another great EM musician leaving us. Always difficult to start E-News with this kind of news.

We have added some really cool re-releases by Tyndall. This the original Tyndall with Jürgen Krehan, Rudolf Langer. Jürgen Krehan later became known also under the name Nick Tyndall. Both first releases "Sonnenlicht" and "Traumland" are really nice if you like the lighter sound of EM.

Steve Dinsdale - Light + Dark is in and you can have a liten to it at this weeks Dreamscape Radio. This is also the case for the brand new Brainwork album Colours of the Soul. And in Dreamscape music from the performing artists of E-Day 2018

ONLY 4 weeks to go to E-Day 2018!!E-Day 2018 March 31st The Enck!http://www.e-live.nl/All info is on the pages!!

--------------------------------------------------====== Dreamscape Radio =======Dreamscape Radio show 440 is online. With music from Brainwork, Stearns Schnauss e.a. You can find Dreamscape here. http://www.dreamscaperadio.nl

==============================================All new Groove Releases from the last year and this year are now also on the Download site. https://shop.groove.nl/ YOU CAN GET THEM WITH A 10% DISCOUNT UNTIL MARCH 31ST. Use the coupon code "NEW "and the 10 % will be deducted. This code works for all downloads!! Here are the new entries:

You remember Venja? I had to reviewed his album Shapeshifter, released on the SynGate label in 2016, which had made a good impression in my ears. Well Venja became Galactic Underground and signs now his music on the Belgian label; Wool-E Tapes. “GU” is a first album which walks a little on the paths of Shapeshifter, but with an even more atmospheric vision and especially darker. But not black to the point of visiting satanic landscapes. Black as in the unknown and the mystery of an astral universe. And surfing on his vast experience, Johan Geens enriches his sonic textures with elements which converge on a sweet intensity developing subtly but gradually in order to reach a point of no return with the sublime "Photons Colliding". And not to do things by halves, the Belgian musician invited renowned artists to join his Galactic Underground project to polish up his musical visions, so that the influences of those latter, in particular Robert Ri c h, inspire textures as unique as those which propel this vast electronic symphony beyond the intergalactic's underground. Following a storm of black winds and tones stemming from uncountable possibilities of a synthesizer, "Destination Unknown" spreads sound arcs which pile-up and melt themselves to float quietly with a subtle intensity in this ambient movement decorated of ill-assorted tones. Although very quiet, the accentuation of the synth lines converges towards an intense orchestral finale which depicts quite well the emotive progression of “GU”. "Sky Ripped" arises from the harmonious resonances of "Destination Unknown". A ballet of synth waves is undulating like shadow puppet from a lantern flame on a wall of acrylic stucco. Waves of cymbals emphasizes the intensity of this ballet which isolates itself in wild plains where the hooting of coyotes, wolves and other night-predators divert all impression of non-movement or minimalism of a structure which reorients its vision with a very good sequence of rhythm took in the spirit of England School, Arc/Redshift, which drives this great track towards a finale softens by a concert of Aeolus and of his sibylline Angels. "Emerging" follows with a more intense approach. If a first ear detects a more celestial lunar décor with bipbips and NASA voices, the synth injects sound waves which break out like a growing anger which will go intensifying. This cinematographic decor eases its heaviness to dissolve it in a heap of hot breezes. "Mirage" begins with a sound panorama decorated with the noises of an insectivorous fauna. This organic crowd meets its more carnivorous elements, like a night in the Californian deserts. We think of these deserts because of this closeness between the elements of "Mirage" and those of Steve Roach. And it's no-one else than Robert Rich who is on percussions. He recorded at home his works on percussions and bring the lunar atmospheres towards these phases of tribal rhythms which fill his musical port-folio decorated of 1 000 marvels. The atmospheres of "Oblivion" are in narrow concordance with the vision of its title; black, intimidating and intriguing. Like a door on oblivion! We go in the 2nd phase of “GU” where Roksana, whom I have discovered on Spyra's Requiem album, and Erik Wollo come to enrich the vibes already rather rich in this new chapter in Johan Geens' career. "Burning" and "Blooming" are 2 titles where the very beautiful voice of Roksana Vikaluk adds its full of volatility with a wide range of feelings for celestial chants. No rhythm here and that's not necessary! Behind a sonic part filled of reverberations, "Burning" explodes of its Gothic chants with a splendid of which voice the intonations clear out the hairs of my arms. Roksana recites a Scandinavian poem that only an organ can accompany at the level of emotional intensity. Lyrical and very good! One would say Dead Can Dance, because of this heavy heap of continuous reverberations, and Kl aus Schulze together with Lisa Gerrard. And this comparison is even more obvious with the very ethereal "Blooming". That's got to be one of the most beautiful connection of a voice to a synth that I heard so far. Inserted between these 2 titles, "Solitary Waves" stays in this very aerial envelope of “GU” with Erik Wollo's soft guitar which floats between layers of voices orchestrated by a synth which also sculptures these synth layers and waves with a so soft seraphic flavor. We really are in the quieter core of this album and "Photons Colliding" comes like a wake-up call for our neurons numbed by so much celestial influence with a wonderful organic and rhythmic approach which takes place in a hallucinating sound decoration. It's Steve Roach and Robert Rich combined in a very Berlin School vision. Awesome! It's the pinnacle of “GU” which ends in the circadian beatings of "Leaving" and these cosmonauts' atmospheres adrift. The label Wool-E Tapes offers its releases as much in digita l format as in manufactured CD. And the artwork of “GU”, as well as its introductory panel of the CD, would be elements which would charm the vision as much as our ears with this brilliant music to all points of view. An additional title is offered on the site Bandcamp of Wool-E Tapes. The organic atmospheres of "The Helium Well" add really nothing more to the wealth of this excellent album. The intensity is there, as well as these wide synth layers more seraphic which swallow the rather threatening advance of the reverberations breathing this darker side in the universe of “GU”. An outstanding sonic germ which is part of my Top 10 of 2017! Sylvain Lupari (March 3rd, 2018)

======= Reviews ====== 77390 Erbe, Stefan - Genesys

The visage of a cosmonaut in a universe colorful of the fuzziness from pastel colors; the artwork of “Genesys” catches our eye and call out to our curiosity. Designer par excellence of an electronic intelligent dance music (IDM), by its tonal quest and its melodic tendency, Stefan Erbe comes back tickling our feet with an energizing music. Down from its 12 titles and its some 65 minutes, “Genesys” is like a flying over the immense possibilities of an EM with its drift between the pure Dance Music style and a good old Berlin School without forgetting the delicate romances which cross this cosmos of which the unreal landscapes never stop evolving between our two hemispheres. And it's in a futuristic world stemming from Stefan Erbe's imagination that begins "Open your Eyes". In an avant-gardist sound décor, an artificial feminine voice wishes us good morning. Flying objects whistle in the atmospheres while that some harmonious threads fly sl ightly with an unexpected innocence. Already, the sound painting of “Genesys” settles between our ears with layers of voices and orchestral envelops which will sleep in background throughout the 12 titles of the album. The harmonious threads sparkle in more intensified arrangements whereas quietly, "Open your Eyes" goes adrift with more delicacy towards "Near Zero". The game of the harmonious sequences lives in the introduction with a subtle variation in the tone. The bass pulsations (gnump, gnump) changes that, pushing forward the title to a good E-rock, rather danceable, loaded of very good percussive effects. The orchestral layers weave a kind of cosmic waltz driven by an Arabian heaviness. The music derives around an ambiosonic zone where one notice that the harmonious sequence of the beginning always breathes there of its innocent candor. A brief moment of calm which gives back to "Near Zero" its momentum for some 2 minutes to come. Already in these first ten minutes, our ears are stamped by a sound fauna which still hides other very nice jewels in the turning point of each track. Like in "Spacedesigner" which is a real machine of seduction. The rhythm is in the kind of cosmic down-tempo with good sound effects and a hunger for a Space Groove. We listen to that in loop my friends! "Equivocal" is more in the kind of up-tempo and Groove with a very lively rhythmic pattern which forgets at no moment the charms of the synths and of their solos. We forget the harmony aspect here, slightly noticeable, to concentrate on a pure dance mood. "All the Stars" follows then with a very beautiful cosmic ode which leads to forget us the absences of Vangelis. The arrangements are very well done in order to shake this lethargy of our soul after a too convulsive dance in "Equivocal". After such a pearl, "Two become One" melts between our ears with thin lines of sequences which crumble between a vague melodious approach and an always uncertain rhythm. The fusion between the keyboard keys and the crumbs of rhythm forge a charming universe where everything seems to shine as much as there are stars. The percussions structure a heavy and slow rhythm where a synth is crying such as a saxophonist who scatters his gloom on the roof of the world. Fragile and uncertain, the sequences shape a spasmodic and circular dance, a Berliner rhythm, where are dragging these lines of synth as melodious as tearful. This is a track where the arrangements accentuate its mystery and its beauty. "Expedition Orbital" is divided between a slow rhythm and an ambient structure filled with sequences which fly slightly in a heavy tonal veil. Stefan Erbe crosses with dexterity the borders of artistic time by blowing these apocalyptic layers from the old musical essences of Tangerine Dream. In a cosmic vibe, this idea is even more brilliant. "Axis" dips us back into the universe of the rhythmic turbulences of Stefan Erbe's repertoire. "Gene", it seems to be the name of the artifi c ial intelligence, looks like to fall asleep in a good phase of cosmic ambiences where its rhythmic breath is cajoled by a seraphic choir. But "Gene" is "Incomplete" and reboots itself with a good movement, not too much disheveled, of cosmic dance. We arrive at the "End of the Universe" which ends “Genesys” with a nice passage of ambient elements and of tonal poetry. "Lightspeed" goes out of the concept behind this last Stefan Erbe's by offering a lively Dance Music which is even more furious than on "Equivocal". Between S-thetic² and Electric Garden, realized with Steve Baltes, and the very dance universe of 2Club Genetica, Stefan Erbe brings the destinies of “Genesys” a little higher than the usual standards. One finds of everything in this album and everything is not absolutely botched! But not at all! The sound aestheticism here also reaches new standards of creativity with a tonal fauna which catches our mind from the first listening of this album. The IDM!? OK for me, when it's done with what it needs to catch my attention. And believe me, “Genesys” has all what it takes to drag me in. Sylvain Lupari (February 3rd, 2018) ****¼*

======= NEW and CHANGED ======Additions and changes from February 21 2018 till March 4 2018

=========CONCERTS ========== And here a very special event!!Cosmic Nights 2018!Galactic Underground/RHEA and Ron Boots live @ Brussels Planetarium. Saturday 19-5-2018 !!Free entrance and a free CD for every visitor!The CD will contain unique tracks from the performing acts of the evening. So.... don't miss this galactic journey through time and space ! for more info mail or visit
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Most Groove releases are also available as Downloads on the Groove Download page. Go to https://shop.groove.nl/ and shop around, But there are also releases by many other artists among them John Kerr, Remy.

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